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Published 08:43 16 Sep 2020 GMT
Netflix's star-studded and highly-anticipated new psychological thriller, The Devil All The Time, drops on the streaming platform today.
Starring new Batman and former pin-up vampire Robert Pattinson, as well as Spiderman star Tom Holland, the movie follows a cast of unusual characters from the culmination of World War Two right up until the 1960s.
Watch the trailer for The Devil All The Time right here:
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A synopsis for the movie reads:
"Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his "prayer log."
There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right."
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The film is based on the Donal Ray Pollock novel of the same name.
Alongside Pattinson and Holland, Bill Skarsgard stars in the movie, with Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Mia Wasikowska, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Melling and Pokey LaFarge.
Tom Holland spoke to Variety about the movie, and specifically the process of getting into character for his role.
“I’ve got to say I was really nervous and scared coming on set for the first time because I didn’t know if I had it in me to play this type of character,” Holland said. “He is a really complicated character and it is very dark, and I had to go to places mentally that I didn’t know I could go to or don’t think I ever want to go to again.”
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Speaking to Digital Spy about the movie's "brutal violence", Skarsgard, who plays Tom Holland's father, said:
"I was lucky enough to shoot pretty much all of my scenes consecutively… That was very helpful to finding where Willard is in any given moment and how he changes, what he goes through, and when does he become more desperate.
And in becoming more desperate, more manic and potentially more dangerous for Arvin (Holland)."
The Devil All The Time is streaming on Netflix now.
